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H. D. HONEY.

INVOICE 0R SCRAP BooK.

Patented Sept. 30. 1.890.

(No Model.)

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HORACE D. HONEY, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL BLANK BOOK COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

INVOICE OR SCRAP BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,493, dated September 30, 1890.

Application filed November 25, 1889. Serial No. 331,415. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, HORACE D. HONEY, of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusettsmave invented a new and use ful Improvement in Invoice or Scrap Books, of

which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

My invention vrelates to the construction of invoice or scrap books; and it has for its object to provide a book of this nature in which increased strength and durability and cheapness in construction will be combined.

To this end the invention consists in the book constructed as hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters designate like parts in the several iigures, Figure 1 is a diagram illustrating the manner in which the book is formed. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of one of the guardstrips. Fig. 3 is an end view of the completed book. Fig. 4 is a diagram ,illustrating the preferred manner of securing the sections together at their rear side.

The several sections of the folded sheets which make up the book are designated by the letter a. b designates the guard or fillingstrips, which, by being inserted between the sections a, ll out the back of the book, said strips being preferably composed of narrow strips of paper-board, united by-stitching, as

represented in Fig. 2, and c designates the book-cover.

Various ways of securing the guard-strips b between the sections a have heretofore been devised, but each of said methods has been found to be objectionable either because of its cost in manufacture or because the book has lacked strength and durability. One ofthe most common methods is to employ an independent binding-sheet, which is folded or crimped in such manner as to extend between each of the sections a and to receive within each of its folds one of the guard-strips. The objection to suchmethod is that the difficulty experienced by the operator in properly starting and manipulating such independent sheet in building up the book necessitates compara tively slow work by the operator and adds bottom section a as a binding-sheet, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, said leaf being folded back upon itself, as shown at 1, to receive the first guard-strip b, then again folded back in the opposite direction to receive the next section a, as shown at 2; again folded, as shown at 3, to receive the second strip b, and so on until the entire leaf has been consumed by said successive folds, as shown at the point 4 in Fig. 3, at which point the uppermost leaf of the section a, last inserted, is utilized in the same manner as a binding-sheet until a sufficient number of sections and guard-strips have been utilized to make the book of the desired thickness. Such building up of the book can be performed very rapidly by the operator, for the reason that the binding-sheet is firmly held in a true position at all times, and no eorts to keep itin such position are required. As the successive sections care placed in position they are connected by stitches to the usual tapes CZ and cords e, as represented in Fig. 4, or may be secured by any of the methods usually employed in book-sewing.

By thus utilizing a leaf of one of the sections a as a binding-sheet, I not o nly effect a considerable saving in the cost of manufacture, as just stated, but I provide a stronger and more durable book, for the reason that the sections a, strips b, and the binding-sheet are th us tied together very rmly independA ently of the stitching, and are not dependent upon the perfection and strength of the latter for their durability.

I do not Wish to limit myself to the particular form of guard-strip, nor to the method of stitching said strips and the sections a together, (herein shown,) as other forms tl1ereof can be employed within the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

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what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters tion ofthe sections 0L, composed of folded Patent, isleaves of paper, with the guard-strips b inter- 1. The invoice or scrap book herein deposed between such sections, the uppermost 15 scribed, comprising a series of sections of leaf of the lower section a'being folded, as

5 folded leaves of paper, aseries of guard-strips described, to receive therein said guard-strips interposed between said sections, and a bind- -and the4 rear edges of the remaining sections, ing-sheet having a series of folds to receive substantiallyas and for the purpose described. said guard-strips, said binding-sheet being composed of one of the leaves of one or more HORACE D. HONEY.

1o of said folded sections, substantially as set Witnesses:

forth. W. N. CHAPMAN,

2. In a scrap or invoice book, the combina- F. B. TOWNE. 

